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This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable. Taking into account that she also bears...
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sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being …
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Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male … marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …
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sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847076
equilibrium limited-commitment collective framework that allows for marriage both within and across birth cohorts. Using Panel … within- and across-cohort marital matching. Our model replicates the bivariate marriage distribution by age, and explains … some of the most salient life-cycle patterns of marriage, divorce, remarriage, and time allocation behavior. We use our …
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Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male … marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057277
The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed … model of the marriage market to explain how the practice may be sustained in the absence of any intrinsic preference for … young brides. We assume there is a desirable female attribute, relevant for the gains from marriage, that is only noisily …
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We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and … women are involved in random sequential search for a partner. Men are seen as breadwinners in the family, and therefore in … the labour market unemployed men carry out a constrained sequential search for jobs. We establish that when divorce …
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I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …
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I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274600